ON THE LAWS OF JAPANESE PAINTING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ART OF JAPAN; With Prefatory Remarks by Iwaya Sazanami and Hirai Kinza
San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1911. Octavo. Brick-red cloth-over boards (8 1/2 in. x 5 3/4 in.) 66 tissue- guarded illustrations throughout. Lovely printing with wide margins, upon thick, high quality paper. 117 pages including Index. A wee bit of scuffing to extremities. Generally tight and bright - a high-quality production about a very sought-after discipline in the world of Art.
Book bears the bookplate of Richard Montgomery Tobin (1866-1952), civic leader, philanthropist President of Hibernia Bank in San Francisco and United States Minister to Netherlands. Very Good. Item #100270
"This volume contains the substance of lectures on the laws and canons of Japanese painting delivered before the Japan Society of America, the Sketch Club of San Francisco, the Art Students of Stanford University, the Saturday Afternoon Club of Santa Cruz, the Arts and Crafts Guild of San Francisco, and the Art Institute of the University of California...Japanese art terms and other words deemed important have been purposely retained and translated for the benefit of students who may desire to seriously pursue Japanese painting under native masters. Those terms printed in small capitals are Chinese in origin; all others in italics are Japanese..." (from Preface).
Price: $50.00